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" Walter Benjamin's hypothetical French Trauerspiel / "
[Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett, special editors]
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BL
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Record Number
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626768
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Title & Author
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Walter Benjamin's hypothetical French Trauerspiel /\ [Hall Bjornstad and Katherine Ibbett, special editors]
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Series Statement
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Yale French studies ;; no. 124
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Page. NO
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173 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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9780300194203
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: 030019420X
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references
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Contents
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Editors' preface: Calling on the Grand Siècle with Walter Benjamin -- The pleasures of hypothesis: Benjamin and the provisional French Trauerspiel -- "Giving voice to the feeling of his age": Benjamn, Pascal,and the Trauerspiel of the king without diversion -- Material fatality: props and the baroque drama of chance -- The crooked crown: reading Le Cid after la Mariane -- Melancholy Racine: Benjamin's Trauerspiel and literary Jews -- Noise, meaning, and music in the Racinian Trauerspiel -- Actor, act, and action in Benjamin's French baroque -- Classicism and the creaturely: Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte -- The dramaturgy of sovereignty and the performance of mourning: the case of Corneille's Horace -- La foi traités: Baroque history, international law, and the politics of reading in Corneille's Rodogune -- Afterword: Re-animating the Gegenstück, or the survival of the French Trauerspiel in the German Baroque
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Subject
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Benjamin, Walter,1892-1940
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French drama-- 17th century
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French drama (Tragedy)
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German drama (Tragedy)
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Bjørnstad, Hall
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Ibbett, Katherine
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